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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Some subscribers to
RUME might be interested in a recent discussion-list post "Re:
Culture Change for Learning" [Hake (2012)].<br>
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The abstract reads:<br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">ABSTRACT: Richard P.
Keeling and Richard H. Hersh (2012) in their "Inside Higher Ed"
article "Culture Change for Learning" at
<http://bit.ly/Jly6Tj> wrote:<br>
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"America faces a crisis in higher learning. Too many college
graduates are not prepared to think critically and creatively, speak
and write cogently and clearly, solve problems, comprehend complex
issues, accept responsibility and accountability, take the perspective
of others, or meet the expectations of employers. . . . . .The core
explanation is this: THE ACADEMY LACKS A SERIOUS CULTURE OF TEACHING
AND LEARNING" [My CAPS]:<br>
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For those who may wish to dig deeper I have provided over 30 relevant
academic references with over 60 hot links.<br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">To access the
complete 23 kB post please click on <http://bit.ly/HJ2zLf>.<br>
<br>
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University<br>
<rrhake@earthlink.net><br>
Links to Articles: <http://bit.ly/a6M5y0><br>
Links to SDI Labs: <http://bit.ly/9nGd3M><br>
Blog: <http://bit.ly/9yGsXh><br>
Academia: <http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake><br>
Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/rrhake><br>
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". . . studies indicate that problem-based discussion, group
study, and other forms of active learning produce greater gains in
critical thinking than lectures, yet the lecture format is still the
standard in most college classes, especially in large
universities."<br>
<b> </b> Derek Bok (2005), former president of
Harvard University,</font></div>
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color="#000000"> in
"Are colleges failing? Higher Ed Needs New Lesson Plans"
[Bok (2005)]</font></div>
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"The academic area is one of the most difficult areas to change
in our society. We continue to use the same methods of instruction,
particularly lectures, that have been used for hundreds of years.
Little scientific research is done to test new approaches, and little
systematic attention is given to the development of new methods.
Universities that study many aspects of the world ignore the
educational function in which they are engaging and from which a large
part of their revenues are earned."<br>
Richard M. Cyert,
former president of Carnegie Mellon University, quoted in<br>
Tuma & Reif
(1980):<br>
<br>
"Few faculty members have any awareness of the expanding
knowledge about learning from psychology and cognitive science. Almost
no one in the academy has mastered or used this knowledge base. One of
my colleagues observed that if doctors used science the way college
teachers do, they would still be trying to heal with
leeches."<br>
James
Duderstadt (2000), President Emeritus and University Professor of<br>
Science
and Engineering at the University of Michigan, in "A University
for<br>
the
21st Century" [Duderstadt (2000)<br>
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"We have not been very systematic about our quest to improve
teaching, even though we value it highly and frequently do well at it.
I am struck, for example, by the lack of conversation about what
pedagogy means, and what makes it successful. It is our profession,
yet it is mysteriously absent from our professional discourse. Here we
are, engaged in an activity that is vital to ourselves, our students,
and our public - yet we speak of how to do it, if at all, as though it
had no data base, lacked a history, and offered no innovative
challenges."<br>
Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford
University, in his "Stanford<br>
President's Address: Stanford in
Its Second Century" - see also "Academic<br>
Duty" [Kennedy
(1999)].</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">REFERENCES [All URL's
shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on 17 April
2012.]</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Bok, D. 2005. "Are
colleges failing? Higher Ed Needs New Lesson Plans," Boston
Globe, 18 December, copied into the APPENDIX of Hake
(2005).</font></div>
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Duderstadt, J.J. 2000.<i> "</i>A University for the 21st
Century." Univ. of Michigan Press. publisher's information at
<http://bit.ly/cvJ1yI>. Amazon.com information at
<http://amzn.to/lxT8YU>, note the searchable "Look Inside"
feature</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Hake, R.R. 2005. "Are
colleges failing?" AERA-L post of 19 Dec 2005
17:54:37-0800; online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at
<http://bit.ly/erBRGN>. The APPENDIX contains a copy of
Bok (2005).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Hake, R.R. 2012.
""Re: Culture Change for Learning," online on the OPEN!
AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/HJ2zLf>. Post of 16 Apr
2012 14:21:25-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to
the complete post are also being transmitted to several discussion
lists and are on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at
<http://bit.ly/IurB23> with a provision for
comments.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Kennedy, D. 1999.
"Academic Duty." Harvard University Press, publisher's
information at <http://bit.ly/edBogg>. Amazon.com information at
<http://amzn.to/hbeAsp>, note the "Look Inside" feature. An
expurgated Google book preview is online at
<http://bit.ly/hmuC5R>.<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Tuma, D.T. & F. Reif, eds.
1980. "Problem Solving and Education: Issues in Teaching and
Research," Lawrence Erlbaum. Amazon.com information at
<http://amzn.to/jcAK2d>.<br>
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